Directions:Cut 30 squares at 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" of assorted fall colors. Sew six of them together across to make a row, make six rows. Then sew the rows together to make the quilt top. Prepare your quilt "sandwich" by layering the backing, right side down (wrong side up), your batting, and then your quilt top on the top of it all. Pen the three layers securing with safety pins in throughout the quilt. Sew a presser foot away from all the seams to "quilt" your project along all the seams working from top to bottom, left to right.

LETTERS: Use the computer to make a template for the word "thankful". #1 Remove one side of the paper from Heat and Bond LIGHT or Steam a Seam Lite 2 (DO NOT remove the paper from the other side yet!) Iron the bonding product onto the BACKSIDE of the fabric you will use for the letters (plain colors work best). #2 Trace the letters onto the non-shiny side regular FREEER paper and cut them out loosely - not right on the line of the letters. #3 Place the shiny side of the freezer paper letters on TOP of the prepared letter fabric and iron it down. It will stick to the fabric. #4 Cut out your letters. #5 Remove the freezer paper from the top of the letters and the protective paper from the backside of the letters. Place them on the quilt top and then iron them into place. #6 Using a straight stitch for easiest method, sew around the outside of each letter about 1/8" away from the edges.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I know starting this week, life will get busy for all of us with the holidays quickly approaching. I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you for being such a blessing to me. Seeing your quilts, hearing your stories, helping you learn a new skill, hearing how someone so enjoyed a quilt you gave them, these are all things that make me happy inside. Thank you for trusting me to teach you and to take your quilts from everyday ordinary to all dressed up with longarm machine quilting. You mean the world to me and I thank God for each one of you. I pray your 2016 holiday season will be blessed with the love of family, the fun of good friends, good health, and, of course, perfect 1/4" seams.

Monday, December 12, 2016 Drop by anytime from 1:00 pm to 7:30 pmJackie's Sewing Service @ W8371 Merriman West RoadIron Mountain MI 49801If you'd like to participate in the Cookie Exchange,bring 1 or more dozen, take 1 or more dozen.

​Times for demonstrations are shown under each project shown below - If you come for the first one of each demo times, you'll get to see all three - they will be given four different times during the Open House. Project supplies, fabric requirements, and construction steps will be available for each of these fun Christmas projects. If you come to the open house, you may enter to win one of these projects. The door prize will be drawn at the end of the last demonstration, we'll call you if you win.

Demonstration​CHRISTMAS WREATH - 20"

NO SEWING REQUIRED​1:30 3:30 5:00 6:30​

DemonstrationSNOWFLAKE - 12"

NO SEWING REQUIRED​1:45 3:45 5:15 6:45

DemonstrationTABLE WREATH

FOLD AND STITCH METHOD2:00 4:00 5:30 7:00

NEW QUILTING CLUB COMING TO FLORENCE - ALL QUILTERS WELCOME

New Quilt Club starting in January, meeting the 2nd Tuesday of each month in Florence at 6:30 pm. We will have Show and Tell, etc. and do some sort of fabric exchanges or fabric assignments for small projects that may cover a few months. If people are interested in joining, please call Joan Spears 715 528-4963 by Dec. 15th or email at w5243@borderlandnet.net

From Felch to Vulcan to Crystal Falls, they would love for you to join them. It is always great to quilt with a group of wonderful women, to share ideas, figure out problems, learn new things.

JACKIE'S UPCOMING WINTERAND SPRING CLASSESand the new option ​REQUEST A CLASS​Watch for exact details in early January.

January Bargello - DifficultFebruary Jelly Roll Challenge - Beginner

March 10-11-12 Quilting with Jackie Quilting Camp - Texas Style 2017BEAT CABIN FEVER, GO TO TEXAS WITH ME! If you want to go to TEXAS with me, register NOW CLICK HERE Call me with any questions. I have room for 3 people, if more up sign up we can always take another vehicle. I was thinking of taking two extra days (one there, one back) to stop at some fun quilt shops on the way down, like Missouri Quilt Company or go through Kentucky and stop at the National Quilt Museum at Paducah, KY. Then, in TX, we would go to the Texas State Quilting Museum before heading home. It will be an awesome trip if you are interested.

April 17 Dresden Plate - Confident Beginner

REQUEST A CLASS - Click to see all the classes you can request. If you see a quilt you'd like to learn, let me and your friends know and we'll announce it and run it with five or more participants.